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Elementary School English

Goal

All students receive instruction in grade-level content and skills, along with appropriate scaffolds and supports, in order to become skillful readers and communicators empowered to navigate an increasingly complex and information-rich world.

Enduring Understandings

• Language is a powerful tool for expressing ideas, beliefs, and feelings.
• Knowledge of language facilitates thought. 
• Readers, listeners, and viewers continually develop and apply strategies to construct meaning from increasingly complex and challenging texts. 
• Writers and speakers strategically use language to communicate for a variety of purposes. 
• Individuals need advanced literacy skills to participate actively and successfully in today’s demanding, information-based society. 
• Literature reveals the complexities of the world.

Resources

• Structured Literacy Community Presentation
• Community Letter: Shifting Literacy Instruction
• Benchmark Advance Program Description
• Resources Available for Parents/Guardians in Benchmark Advance Guide
• Benchmark Advance Family Welcome Letter
• Explanation of the Review and Routines Unit
• PARENT COPY:  Benchmark Advance Parent Resources